Russia's cultural capital St. Petersburg Monday celebrated the 177th anniversary of the death of its greatest son, the poet and national cultural icon Alexander Pushkin.
One of the two suspected murderers of USC (University of Southern California) Chinese students Ying Wu and Ming Qu was sentenced on Wednesday morning to life in prison by the Superior Court of California for Los Angeles County.
India's Supreme Court Friday stopped the execution of a Sikh terrorist on death row, and sought a medical report on his mental health.
Some nine people, including one woman, were charred to death in a major fire which broke out on an express train in the western Indian state of Maharashtra in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior police officer said.
The death toll from an oil pipeline blast on Nov. 22 in Qingdao City of east China's Shandong Province rose to 62 as of Tuesday morning, as body of the last missing person was retrieved on Monday, the rescue headquarters said.
A man who killed a two-year-old girl by throwing her to the ground was sentenced to death by a Beijing court on Wednesday.
The High Court in the Indian capital Monday issued warrants for production of four adult convicts in the Delhi gangrape case, who were sentenced to death just days back by a fast-track court.
India's Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed for the time being the execution of two death row convicts, who were to hang Thursday, after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected their clemency pleas last week.
An official memorial service was held on Monday evening in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, northwestern Spain in tribute to the victims of last week's train crash which claimed 79 lives.
Lawyers for the suspect in last year's U.S. movie theater massacre on Monday changed their client's plea to "not guilty by reason of insanity."
A 17-year-old Indian girl studying in class XI of a prominent south Delhi school was allegedly raped by two men at a New Year's party in a middle class residential zone in the Indian capital, local daily Times of India reported on Wednesday.
The Indian capital on Monday is bracing for more protests against the recent gang rape of a 23-year- old medical student who succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Singapore in the wee hours last Saturday.
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